Adam Carolla

“I don't know how to work a computer. I've never put my name in a computer, never looked on any web sites. Somebody has owned AdamCarolla.com for 10 years, and I don't even know who owns it.” - Adam Carolla

Adam Carolla is the beer-guzzzling, hammer-wielding star of TLC’s The Adam Carolla Project, Comedy Central’s Too Late with Adam Carolla and CBS Radio’s The Adam Carolla Show. Before having his name tattooed across his own programs, America’s everyman was the cohost of The Man Show and Loveline. He also appeared on the 2008 season of Dancing With The Stars.

In 2010, Adam Carolla wrote a New York Times best-selling book called In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks.

Lately, he's been hosting The Adam Carolla Show as a podcast and on the ACE network, as well as The Car Show on Speed TV.

Carolla illustrated his frustration with this mock exchange: "'I want my Most Valuable Player trophy.' 'Well, you're the slowest, fattest guy on the team.' 'Why should he get one and I dont get one?' 'Because he busts his ass and he runs a 4.4 40. That's why he gets one.' 'Well this is bullsh*t.' And then everyone gets involved and everyone gives everyone a participation trophy and then everyone feels good about themselves, but it's not based on anything."

MAGNETISM

Although most women claim they like a guy with a sense of humor, what they really mean is they like a guy with a sense of humor and several hundred thousand dollars in the bank. That’s where Adam Carolla has most men beat. In addition to being funny and personable, he’s also incredibly successful. It’s little wonder then that he’s been off the market since 2002, when he married his longtime girlfriend, Lynette Paradise.

SUCCESS

Most celebrities would be content with having one show; Adam Carolla has three. The multidisciplinary comedian, in the year 2006, stars on Comedy Central’s Too Late with Adam Carolla, TLC’s Adam Carolla Project and CBS Radio’s The Adam Carolla Show. Before achieving solo-star status, Adam was the co-host of The Man Show from 1999 to 2003 and he teamed up with Dr. Drew Pinsky on the radio and television versions of Loveline from 1996 to 2005. He has also lent his distinctive voice to Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Family Guy, Drawn Together, and Crank Yankers. In 2008 he joined the celebrity-studded cast of Dancing With The Stars.

Adam has also branched out into producing. In addition to his own eponymous shows, he has also executive produced Crank Yankers, Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust, The Andy Milonakis Show, and the TV movie Windy City Heat, which won the Best Film award at the 2004 Montreal Just For Laughs comedy festival.

Adam Carolla Biography

Adam Carolla was born May 27, 1964, in Los Angeles, but grew up among the glitz and glamour of North Hollywood. Although not a star himself, many of his friends and classmates were, and he grew up being friends with promising young actresses like Molly Ringwald and Christy Canyon. In fact, it was Adam’s outgoing personality that got him voted class clown at North Hollywood High School, where he was also the captain of his football team.

Following high school, Adam Carolla attended Los Angeles Valley College for a short time, but soon dropped out upon deciding that his future clearly wasn’t in academia. With little formal education under his belt, Adam bounced around from one odd job to another, working as a carpet cleaner, a traffic school instructor and a journeyman carpenter. He also tried his hand at comedy, performing with The Groundlings, a famous improv troupe whose alumni includes Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Lisa Kudrow, and Conan O’Brien.

adam carolla on loveline

Adam Carolla got his big break while working as a boxing instructor. Hoping to earn a few extra bucks, he responded to an ad to give boxing lessons to the resident “sports guy” on KROQ’s Kevin & Bean Morning Show in Los Angeles. That sports guy was Jimmy Kimmel, and the pair immediately clicked. In fact, Jimmy and the show’s producers were so impressed with Adam’s wit that he was invited to join the program as Mr. Birchum, a shell-shocked woodshop teacher.

Adam Carolla’s involvement with the show increased over time and, in 1995, he was invited to cohost the nationally-syndicated Loveline with Dr. Drew Pinsky. Although Adam’s ability to solve caller’s relationship woes was limited, his natural candor and wit were a welcome addition to the program. In fact, MTV was so impressed with the direction the show was headed that they developed a television version of the show. The program first hit the airwaves in 1996 and continued for four more successful seasons.

adam carolla launches the man show

Adam Carolla joined forces with Jimmy again in 1999 when the pair launched The Man Show on Comedy Central. A gleefully chauvinistic spectacle, the show featured beer-chugging, toilet humor and large-breasted Juggy Girls bouncing on trampolines. Suffice it to say, the program was a double-D-sized hit with the station’s mostly male demographic.

Adam Carolla’s cohosting role on the show eventually lead to other showbiz opportunities and, in 2000, he took on the role of Commander Nebula in the animated series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Roles on Family Guy and Son of the Beach followed in quick succession. On the home front, Adam also married his longtime girlfriend, Lynette Paradise on September 28, 2002.

adam carolla and crank yankers

Despite The Man Show’s immense success, Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel decided to leave the program in 2003 to launch Crank Yankers, a hilarious show with real prank phone calls acted out by puppets. The show, which continues to air on Comedy Central has featured an impressive line-up of guest prankers including Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, Denis Leary, and Jack Black. Adam Carolla also became a regular guest and contributor to Jimmy Kimmel Live when his good friend and co-conspirator landed his own talk show.

adam carolla on tLC

2005 proved to be a big career year for Adam. The Philly native began the year with The Adam Carolla Project, a TLC series in which he and his clueless friends and family renovate and resell his boyhood home. Next came Too Late with Adam Carolla, a late night talk show featuring skits, songs and celebrity guests.

The best, however, was yet to come. On August 4, 2005, Adam announced he’d be stepping down from Loveline to replace Howard Stern in a number of major morning markets in the Western U.S. From the beginning, he made it clear that he and Stern were very different entities. “The God's honest truth is that I'm probably funnier, but he's smarter,” he said. “Here's the thing about Stern -- he's really a smart guy. He's nutty. He's outrageous. He's all those things, but he's also a very smart guy.”